TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund Limited announces the appointment of Simon Richard Class (Richard Class) as an independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 November 2023. Richard's career spans more than thirty years in the financial services sector. Over more than a decade at Morgan Stanley, he was Managing Director and Head of EMEA Business Development for Fixed Income, and also a portfolio manager for their fixed income portfolios with assets totalling ?7bn.

Prior to that, he was a Board Director and trainer at BG Consulting, a financial products training and development company. He began his career as a fixed income derivatives trader in interest rates and FX products at Rabobank and Morgan Grenfell. He is currently a senior advisor to OptimX, which helps clients to reduce the costs of using financial markets, and is also a senior mentor.

Richard has a Mathematics degree from Oxford University.